The senators said they are “conveying concerns they have heard firsthand from Gorge constituents.”

“We request that BNSF postpone movements of oil trains and trains carrying other hazardous materials through the Columbia River Gorge while there are active wildfires and the ongoing concern of flash flooding and rockslides,” the senators wrote.

The Eagle Creek Fire has burned nearly 49,000 acres and was 46 percent contained Thursday. Embers from the fire jumped the river at one point, starting the Archer Mountain Fire in Skamania County.